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30 January : “Introducing the course” : no audio
 
4 February : first reading of Benjamin’s ‘Theses’; historicism and historical materialism; narratives of redemption; treasures and barbarism : download (30.7mb .mp3 file)
 
6 February : Benjamin and angel of history; catastrophe, pain of history, interruption without redemption; first reading of Adorno’s ‘Subject/Object’ : download (30.7mb .mp3 file)
 
11 February : full discussion of ‘Subject/Object’; eidos and result; mutual implication of subject in object, object in subject; consequences, historical study-experience : download (29.2mb .mp3 file)
 
13 February : first discussion of ‘Work of Art’ essay; Benjamin and perception; fate of aura in modernity; reproducibility and uniqueness : download (32.6mb .mp3 file)
 
18 February : open discussion of ‘Work of Art’ essay; distraction and passivity; fascism and aestheticized politics; art and social control : download (30.5mb .mp3 file)
 
20 February : Advising Day : no class
 
25 February : Kant and the promise of enlightenment; modernity as scientific reason, totalized;  : download (33.5mb .mp3 file)
 
27 February : continued discussion of concept of enlightenment; technology as constitutive of public realm; the problem of ‘mere poetry’ : download (29.7mb .mp3 file)
 
3 March : discussion of public-private sense of resistance; ‘The Culture Industry’ as uniformity; sameness, art, and consumption : download (28.9mb .mp3 file)
 
5 March : thinking, language, and closure of sites of resistance; individuality as market; differentiation as co-optable identity formation : download (30.7mb .mp3 file)
 
10 March : mass culture, uniformity, and production of otherness; anti-semitism as constitutive of European identity; Shoah as destiny of Europe, Modernity : download (28.1mb .mp3 file)
 
12 March : further reflections on anti-semitism; scapegoat and violence; release of suppressed difference; future after Dialectic of Enlightenment : download (30.3mb .mp3 file)
 
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Spring 2008 : Frankfurt School : Podcasts